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Notes on the Nagarjunakonda Inscriptions

Vol. 7 · No. 4December - 1931pp. 635–650English

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  • “Yuan Chwang’s mention of Nagarjuna in connection with Daksgiga Kofala and the identification of this country, as suggested by Cun- ningham, with “દાહ ancient province of Vidarbha or Berar, of which the present capital is Nagpur'® reminds us of the -Tibetan tradition which says that Nagarjuna was born of a brahmin family of Vidarbha.¢”
  • “The Mafjusrinsiilakalpa furnishes us with a હિપ particulars about Niagarjuna corroborating the Lankivatira but does not mention his birth-place or the chief centre of पिंड activities,”
  • “શળાવ્રરે ॥ [16 the fourth century after my parinirvipa,® there will be a monk known by the name of Naga engaged in doing good to the Faith,”

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  1. Tiraonatha, op. ૮, pp. 75, 81, 303; dPag. bsam. איז, beah, p. 86 : dPal. gyi. ri=Sriparvata or Srifaila.
  2. Cunningham, op. &if., p. 595.
  3. Tiranatha, op. o, Appendix, pp. 308, 303; dPag. bsam. lon. bzanr, p. 85 : 1ho-phyogs-Vaidarbhar-bram, zeki, rigs. su, ૭1૬11085.
  4. Lankavatira, Sagathakam, p. 286
  5. Wslleser, Life of Nigiarjuna (Hirth Anniversary volume)

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Vol. 7 · No. 4
629–634Mahanitakam – Our Text635–650Notes on the Nagarjunakonda InscriptionsCurrent article651–654Kulasekhara Alvar and His DateK. G. Sesha Aiyar655–679Early Visnuism and Narayaniya WorshipMrinal Das Gupta679–689King Nanyadeva of MithilaRamesh Chandra Majumdar683–702The Sea and Land Travels of a Buddhist Sadhu in the Sixteenth CenturyGiuseppe Tucci689–702The Coins and Weights in Ancient IndiaA. K. Sarkar703–708Fire-Arms in Ancient IndiaJogesh Chandra Roy703–709Finger-posts of Bengal HistoryBijoy Nath Sarkar709–715Studies in the KautilyaNarendra Nath Law716–726On Some Castes and Caste-origins in SylhetK. M. Gupta727–734The Chando-Vedanga of PingalaMano Mohan Ghosh735–737On the origin of the Aryan word IstakaJean Przyluski737–740An Inscription of Asoka discovered at YerragudiDineshchandra Sircar740–741Bodhichitta-vivarna of NagarjunaP. C. Bagchi741–742On the antiquity of the name "Kasthamandapa" or "Kathmandu"P. C. Bagchi743–746Identification of BrahmaputraK. M. Gupta746–747MeradaLakshmi Narayan Harichandan Jagadeb747–750Origin of the Lotus-CapitalAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy750The Gudimallam LingamAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy751–753GopalaJogendra Chandra Ghosh753–756Early Capital of the Gurjara Pratiharas of MahodayaJogendra Chandra Ghosh757–759The St. Thomas Tradition and a Recent Discovery in TravancoreC. S. Srinivasachari760–768ReviewsSushil Kumar De, Batakrishna Ghosh, D. Bhattacharya769–775Select Contents of Oriental Journals776–778Obituary Notice: Pandit R. D. BanerjiRamaprasad Chanda779–782Bibliographical Notes

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